Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship Vince Buffalo Author: Barry Hatton

Author: Barry Hatton

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Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship Vince Buffalo Author: Barry HattonSpiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it "a mother of mercy" to those in need. In a three book Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human friendship as sacramental, beginning in creation, as God